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from COLE, DESMOND T. and NAUREEN A., (2005) Lithops Flowering Stones,
Cactus&Co. Libri
Description: Lithops pseudotruncatella is
characterized by densely and ramosely branched channels and rubrications,
and very numerous dusky dots.
Profile: Truncate; flat to slightly convex, occasionally slightly
concave; fissure shallow, 4-8 mm; lobes conjunct.
Face: Flush, mostly ± reniform, lobes mostly ± unequal; mostly
opaque; smooth to very slightly rugose.
Margins: Not clearly distinguishable, being irregularly
interrupted by numerous branched intrusions from the channels and
rubrications, and also by dusky dots; inner margins often fairly
distinct.
Windows: Usually not clearly distinguishable, always ± occluded,
often reduced to narrow channels which barely accomodate the
rubrications; sometimes the combination of channels and dusky dots
produces an obscurely transluscent effect which has been likened to an
oil stain.
Channels: Not clearly defined, very irregular, slightly
impressed, sometimes quite broad, usually narrow and often reduced to
slender grooves.
Island: Manifest as opaque areas ± enclosed by channels,
irregular and not distinctly outlined, few to many, small to large.
Rubrications: In the channels, usually irregularly and
extensively branched, often connected to form a broken network but
sometimes reduced to a scattering of short lines, dashes and dots; the
ends often finely ramose and tapering off into the outer margins, but
terminating in a prominent line along the inner margin.
Dusky dots: Usually very numerous, mostly clearly visible,
scattered irregularly over the whole face, including margins, islands
and channels, and occasionally extending over onto the shoulders; often
concentrated along the edges of the rubrications, and then difficult to
distinguish from the channels.
Colours: Face (margins & islands) opaque pale grey or beige
tinted with various shades of yellow-brown, orange-brown, brown, pink,
greenish yellow, mauve or blue, the margins sometimes obscurely banded
in a slightly lighter colour. Channels obscurely transluscent dull
greenish or bluish grey or greenish green. Rubrications various shades
of brown, orange-brown, red-brown, red or purplish brown. Dusky dots
dull dark greenish or bluish grey. Shoulders as for the margins or a
little greyer and duller.
Size: Medium to very large, facial diameters up to 50 X 35 mm,
mostly about 25-40 x 20-30 mm. Number of heads up to 20 or more, mostly
2-4.
Flowers: Yellow, medium to very large, up to 50 mm Ø, mostly
25-40 mm Ø. |
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